All this is relevant for old fashioned spinning disks, modern solid state
drives should have uniform performance.
This should prove useful
http://gparted.org/why-partition.php#improve-performance
I.e. the speed is fastest at the edge.
You can test the performance of your disk withsudo hdparm -t /dev/sda(replace
sda if needed) This is the peak performance. Then to find out the worst
performance usesudo hdparm -t --offset 123 /dev/sdawhere 123 is almost the
max capacity (in GB) of your device. As hdparm manual page says, the
difference should be about 2x.
